National laughingstock: Florida? Yes. Diane Sawyer? I don't think so

We're talking about national laughingstocks the day after Election Day.

ABC anchor Diane Sawyer's giddy delivery through the long night has raised a lot of speculation that she was tired or drinking.

Which makes me wonder: How much "Good Morning America" and "ABC World News" have these viewers watched?

Sawyer was being Sawyer. She has an exuberant, bubbly style on live television. She likes to take over with Auntie Mame gusto. Her over-the-top mannerisms seemed to throw co-anchor George Stephanopoulos, but she was fascinating to watch. And she gave tweeters something to tweet about.

She was having a power failure that hit her set during the election coverage. The New York Times quoted unnamed ABC sources who said that Sawyer was exhausted. Yet she carried on in good humor and the Sawyer style.

If you want to talk about laughingstocks, look to Florida. Yes, we again were drawing the nation's ridicule for our voting problems. In a segment Wednesday morning, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield noted that Floridians were still voting at 1:45 this morning because the lines in the Sunshine State were so long. Optical scanners jammed. Provisional ballots were waiting to be counted.

"It's always something in Florida," CNN anchor John Berman said after talking to Banfield.

Yes, and it's getting mighty tiresome. Could it be that the governor needs to form a commission to rectify these problems? This nonsense needs to end.